9th February 2057
The Feng Huang and Anubis class craft close in on the Tau Ceti battle group who are now powerless at the Sol jump point. The Anubis class craft opens fire with 21 particle torpedoes and one of the Fly Swatter AMM craft is destroyed and 205 survivors make it to the life pods. Unfortunately the Commander doesn't make it. The Tau Ceti aliens then attack with salvos of 31 AMM's which bounce off the armor of the Broadsword ASM craft. With no where to run it's just a matter of time. At 6:32 a second Broadsword is destroyed and 186 survivors make it this time the first of the Sunstrike sensor craft is taken next and Lieutenant Commander Natasha Lawson makes it to the life pods with 224 others. Finally at 6:33 all craft are destroyed and over a 1000 survivors are stranded in space. All contact with the Tau Ceti aliens has been lost.
At 7:03 the Anubis is picked up in the Sol system at 19:30 after a long chase one of the Gormus class craft is destroyed 172 survivors make it unfortunately Commander Alice Kaur is killed. The Anubis then continue onwards towards Earth. Waiting in Earth orbit are 7 Broadsword MK 2's and 2 Fly Swatters MK 2. Also Earth is protected by 15 PDC's.
14th February 2057
As the Anubis closes on Earth it launches and takes out one of the defensive PDC's. Due to the enemies ECM the decision is made to close range and the 7 Broadswords set an intercept course for the Anubis and 4:44 it pays off as 12 missiles strike the Anubis reducing it's speed to 1934 km/s shortly after one of the Broadswords is taken out.
The descision is made to pullback to Earth orbit and monitor the Anubis craft this is in vain as all remaining Broadswords are destroyed 2 mins later. The Anubis then proceeds to destroy all the defensive installations on Earth. Another lesson learnt keep upgrading defenses the current one's are very old and as can be seen no use.
Well it's over the Anubis has destroyed all ships in Earth orbit and the end of the human race is in sight. Hope this has been enjoyable and I certainly learnt lot's of valuable lessons. There are still numerous things not covered in this AAR maybe I will do another when I improve. It's very embarassing that one ship can destroy an empire. All I can say is well done to the Tau Ceti empire they where a pain from the start and maybe sometime I will get my revenge.
Wednesday 19 May 2010
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Aftermath and Strategic Planning
All ships in the Tau Ceti battle group survived the encounter with the Spider class alien craft. Although some systems where damaged. Damage control was initiated to repair engines first as the fleet heads towards the Sol jump point.
Meanwhile on Earth plans to get maintenance and fuel craft to the fleet are put into action as well as ships to restock the depleted missile supplies. Research also continues to improve the missile tech.
Contact is lost with the Spider craft which is also retreating either for reinforcements or to repair I will shortly find out which.
1st February 2057
The Tau Ceti battle group reach the Sol jump point and remain on high alert scanning for any hostile contacts. The sensor range around the jump point is 336 million kms.
The following design is created as a missile resupply ship:
Cerberus Missile Resupply class Cruiser 16150 tons 613 Crew 1875.2 BP TCS 323 TH 660 EM 0
2043 km/s Armour 8-56 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 2086% IFR: 29% Maint Capacity 1073 MSP Max Repair 30 MSP Est Time: 1.36 Years
Magazine 3400
Ion Engine E8 Military (11) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 7.0 billion km (39 days at full power)
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
A military jump tender that can get ships in and out is now required.
8th February 2057
At 11:01 three hostile contacts are detected approaching the Tau Ceti battle group stationed by the Sol jump point. Two are Marshal and Anubis with a tonnage of 24,000 as encountered before the third is designated Feng Huang and has a tonnage of16,000 tons. The battle group is put on red alert there is now way of knowing if the fleet has been detected. We only have 83 ASM's left and 605 AMM's so defense will be our best policy. All three alien ships are closing at 5624 km/s.
At 19:57 all three alien contacts are 162m km from the battle group current ASM range is 70.5m km the target decision will need to made soon but from the limited intelligence gained the choice of target is not clear. At 23:18 the alien active sensor is detected at a range of 88.2m km the fleet is still not within missile range. So far no hostile launches have been detected.
The Marshall class craft breaks away from the main fleet at 23:23 which may mean it's the eyes of the other craft. Too bad it's out of range.
9th February 2057
A hostile missile contact is picked up and targeted by the three AMM ships salvo size is 20 with a thermal signature of 5. At 00:10 one of the Broadsword ASM craft is hit by 20 size 5 missile. The craft is not destroyed but numerous systems are in need of repair. Another size 20 salvo is also detected. The AMM missiles where not effective at all. The second salvo is reduced to 8 missiles but this is still enough to destroy the crippled Broadsword 129 life pods are detected. The second Broadsword is hit by 6 missiles but manages to survive. We are now out of ASM's so defence and the hope they run out of missiles is all we have left.
They keep sending salvo after salvo and the fleet defends valiently but finally 13 missiles hit one of the Sunstrike sensor craft luckily the armor absorbs the impact. We finally run out of AMM missiles at 00:17 and can only wait for the end. The missile salvos end at 00:20 and all other craft manage to survive. Orders are given to pick-up any survivors and repairs are started.
Meanwhile on Earth plans to get maintenance and fuel craft to the fleet are put into action as well as ships to restock the depleted missile supplies. Research also continues to improve the missile tech.
Contact is lost with the Spider craft which is also retreating either for reinforcements or to repair I will shortly find out which.
1st February 2057
The Tau Ceti battle group reach the Sol jump point and remain on high alert scanning for any hostile contacts. The sensor range around the jump point is 336 million kms.
The following design is created as a missile resupply ship:
Cerberus Missile Resupply class Cruiser 16150 tons 613 Crew 1875.2 BP TCS 323 TH 660 EM 0
2043 km/s Armour 8-56 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 1 PPV 0
Annual Failure Rate: 2086% IFR: 29% Maint Capacity 1073 MSP Max Repair 30 MSP Est Time: 1.36 Years
Magazine 3400
Ion Engine E8 Military (11) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 50,000 Litres Range 7.0 billion km (39 days at full power)
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
A military jump tender that can get ships in and out is now required.
8th February 2057
At 11:01 three hostile contacts are detected approaching the Tau Ceti battle group stationed by the Sol jump point. Two are Marshal and Anubis with a tonnage of 24,000 as encountered before the third is designated Feng Huang and has a tonnage of16,000 tons. The battle group is put on red alert there is now way of knowing if the fleet has been detected. We only have 83 ASM's left and 605 AMM's so defense will be our best policy. All three alien ships are closing at 5624 km/s.
At 19:57 all three alien contacts are 162m km from the battle group current ASM range is 70.5m km the target decision will need to made soon but from the limited intelligence gained the choice of target is not clear. At 23:18 the alien active sensor is detected at a range of 88.2m km the fleet is still not within missile range. So far no hostile launches have been detected.
The Marshall class craft breaks away from the main fleet at 23:23 which may mean it's the eyes of the other craft. Too bad it's out of range.
9th February 2057
A hostile missile contact is picked up and targeted by the three AMM ships salvo size is 20 with a thermal signature of 5. At 00:10 one of the Broadsword ASM craft is hit by 20 size 5 missile. The craft is not destroyed but numerous systems are in need of repair. Another size 20 salvo is also detected. The AMM missiles where not effective at all. The second salvo is reduced to 8 missiles but this is still enough to destroy the crippled Broadsword 129 life pods are detected. The second Broadsword is hit by 6 missiles but manages to survive. We are now out of ASM's so defence and the hope they run out of missiles is all we have left.
They keep sending salvo after salvo and the fleet defends valiently but finally 13 missiles hit one of the Sunstrike sensor craft luckily the armor absorbs the impact. We finally run out of AMM missiles at 00:17 and can only wait for the end. The missile salvos end at 00:20 and all other craft manage to survive. Orders are given to pick-up any survivors and repairs are started.
Sunday 2 May 2010
Mineral Shortage
The TN minerals on Earth are starting to run low so over the next few years a mining program will be put into operation. This involves a full survey of the Sol system including the asteroids and mass drivers and automines on all minable bodies sending anything mined back to Earth. Once this is set-up in Sol the same thing will be carried out in Luyten 726-8 which is a mineral rich system. Any minerals stockpiled on Luyten 726-8 A II will then be transported to Earth by a fleet of Hercules.
18th September 2051
Survey group 2 have started surveying the newly discovered Lacaille 8760 system this jump point was from Barnards Star.
8th October 2051
The survey of Giclas 221-5 completes and no unexplored jump points are found.
12th November 2051
Survey group 1 discovers and starts a survey of Gliese 134. The first unexplored jump point is found on the 19th of January 2052.
6th March 2052
The V491 Persei has been discovered there are three planets with a colony cost of two and two moons with a cost of two. It's a good distance from Sol but it's could act as a forward base some time in the future.
4th April 2052
Gravsurvey completes in the Gliese 134 system only one jump point is found.
26th June 2052
The Pi-3 Orionis system is discovered and it contains three wrecks of 24,000, 16,000 and 8,000 tons could the 24,000 be a Tau Ceti Anubis?
23rd July 2052
The first unexplored jump point is found in the Pi-3 Orionis system.
29th September 2052
The redesign of The Fly Swatter Anti-Missile craft is completed and the Mesons have been removed and missile launchers added:
Fly Swatter MK 2 - Copy class Area Defence Cruiser 7550 tons 476 Crew 1131.2 BP TCS 151 TH 480 EM 0
3178 km/s Armour 8-34 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 10
Annual Failure Rate: 152% IFR: 2.1% Maint Capacity 281 MSP Max Repair 210 MSP Est Time: 0.88 Years
Magazine 486
Ion Engine E8 Military (8) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 400,000 Litres Range 119.2 billion km (434 days at full power)
Size 1 Missile Launcher (10) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 10
Missile Fire Control FC1-R1 AMM MK 1 (1) Range 1.4m km Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR1-R1 MK 1 AMM (1) GPS 210 Range 1.7m km Resolution 1
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
Here is my Anti-Ship design:
Broadsword ASM MK 2 - Copy class Missile Cruiser 9000 tons 688 Crew 1354.4 BP TCS 180 TH 720 EM 0
4000 km/s Armour 8-38 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 5 PPV 20
Annual Failure Rate: 129% IFR: 1.8% Maint Capacity 1470 MSP Max Repair 210 MSP Est Time: 2.8 Years
Magazine 258
Ion Engine E8 Military (12) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 200,000 Litres Range 50.0 billion km (144 days at full power)
Size 2 Missile Launcher ASM (10) Missile Size 2 Rate of Fire 20
Missile Fire Control FC166-R120 Anti-Ship MK 1 2052 (3) Range 166.3m km Resolution 120
Size 2 Anti-ship Missile Deathbringer MK 2 (304) Speed: 22,400 km/s End: 18.7m Range: 25.1m km WH: 4 Size: 2 TH: 82 / 49 / 24
Active Search Sensor MR336-R200 MK 1 (1) GPS 42000 Range 336.0m km Resolution 200
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
All the Fly Swatter MK 1 ships are now heading to Earth for a refit to the Mk 2 version.
5th June 2053
The Bujumbura empire have granted us trade access. We give them trade access too.
Just been having a look at the map and I've noticed that an unexplored jump point in the Pi-3 Orionis system has a jumpgate. It must be an alien design.
1st February 2054
The survey of the Pi-3 Orionis system completes and only two jump points where found one as noted above with an alien jumpgate. Maybe that explains the wrecks some salvage craft will come and explore the wrecks. The decision is also made to transit the alien jump gate to see if any signs of life can be found.
3rd April 2054
The Gliese 176 system is discovered by New Horizon 003 and one colonisable planet is in the system. There is also luckily an alien jumpgate on the other side.
27th September 2054
Another jump point with an alien jumpgate is found in the Gliese 176 system.
26th December 2054
The gravsurvey of Gliese 176 completes and only the alien jumpgate is found so the survey team head through it.
Well this is it I'm away in corfu for two weeks from tomorrow on holiday so before I go I'm going to have another go against the Tau Cet aliens.
The fleet is as follows:
Two Sunstrike MK 4 Sensor Ships
Two Broadsword ASM MK 3 Ships
Three Fly Swatter AMM MK 2 Ships
This is a small fleet but I want to see how things go.
19th January 2057
The Tau Ceti battle group refuel arm and move to the Tau Ceti gate.
28th January 2057
The battle group enters the Tau Ceti system and all weapons are readied. The fleet heads towards the wreck of the Sunstrike from the previous attempt.
29th January 2057
The first enemy contact is picked up a Spider class tonnage 8,000 range 207.4m kms the fleet heads towards the contact. At 20:57 both Broadsword class craft launch a salvo of four missiles. The Spider has an ECM which reduces the attack range to 99m km so we need to close. At 23:47 we are within range and open fire again twenty missiles are launched. Damn launced beyond the range of my missiles. Another mistake will try again. At 20:57 the Spider turns to try to escape.
18th September 2051
Survey group 2 have started surveying the newly discovered Lacaille 8760 system this jump point was from Barnards Star.
8th October 2051
The survey of Giclas 221-5 completes and no unexplored jump points are found.
12th November 2051
Survey group 1 discovers and starts a survey of Gliese 134. The first unexplored jump point is found on the 19th of January 2052.
6th March 2052
The V491 Persei has been discovered there are three planets with a colony cost of two and two moons with a cost of two. It's a good distance from Sol but it's could act as a forward base some time in the future.
4th April 2052
Gravsurvey completes in the Gliese 134 system only one jump point is found.
26th June 2052
The Pi-3 Orionis system is discovered and it contains three wrecks of 24,000, 16,000 and 8,000 tons could the 24,000 be a Tau Ceti Anubis?
23rd July 2052
The first unexplored jump point is found in the Pi-3 Orionis system.
29th September 2052
The redesign of The Fly Swatter Anti-Missile craft is completed and the Mesons have been removed and missile launchers added:
Fly Swatter MK 2 - Copy class Area Defence Cruiser 7550 tons 476 Crew 1131.2 BP TCS 151 TH 480 EM 0
3178 km/s Armour 8-34 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 3 PPV 10
Annual Failure Rate: 152% IFR: 2.1% Maint Capacity 281 MSP Max Repair 210 MSP Est Time: 0.88 Years
Magazine 486
Ion Engine E8 Military (8) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 400,000 Litres Range 119.2 billion km (434 days at full power)
Size 1 Missile Launcher (10) Missile Size 1 Rate of Fire 10
Missile Fire Control FC1-R1 AMM MK 1 (1) Range 1.4m km Resolution 1
Active Search Sensor MR1-R1 MK 1 AMM (1) GPS 210 Range 1.7m km Resolution 1
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
Here is my Anti-Ship design:
Broadsword ASM MK 2 - Copy class Missile Cruiser 9000 tons 688 Crew 1354.4 BP TCS 180 TH 720 EM 0
4000 km/s Armour 8-38 Shields 0-0 Sensors 1/1/0/0 Damage Control Rating 5 PPV 20
Annual Failure Rate: 129% IFR: 1.8% Maint Capacity 1470 MSP Max Repair 210 MSP Est Time: 2.8 Years
Magazine 258
Ion Engine E8 Military (12) Power 60 Fuel Use 80% Signature 60 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 200,000 Litres Range 50.0 billion km (144 days at full power)
Size 2 Missile Launcher ASM (10) Missile Size 2 Rate of Fire 20
Missile Fire Control FC166-R120 Anti-Ship MK 1 2052 (3) Range 166.3m km Resolution 120
Size 2 Anti-ship Missile Deathbringer MK 2 (304) Speed: 22,400 km/s End: 18.7m Range: 25.1m km WH: 4 Size: 2 TH: 82 / 49 / 24
Active Search Sensor MR336-R200 MK 1 (1) GPS 42000 Range 336.0m km Resolution 200
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a military vessel for maintenance purposes
All the Fly Swatter MK 1 ships are now heading to Earth for a refit to the Mk 2 version.
5th June 2053
The Bujumbura empire have granted us trade access. We give them trade access too.
Just been having a look at the map and I've noticed that an unexplored jump point in the Pi-3 Orionis system has a jumpgate. It must be an alien design.
1st February 2054
The survey of the Pi-3 Orionis system completes and only two jump points where found one as noted above with an alien jumpgate. Maybe that explains the wrecks some salvage craft will come and explore the wrecks. The decision is also made to transit the alien jump gate to see if any signs of life can be found.
3rd April 2054
The Gliese 176 system is discovered by New Horizon 003 and one colonisable planet is in the system. There is also luckily an alien jumpgate on the other side.
27th September 2054
Another jump point with an alien jumpgate is found in the Gliese 176 system.
26th December 2054
The gravsurvey of Gliese 176 completes and only the alien jumpgate is found so the survey team head through it.
Well this is it I'm away in corfu for two weeks from tomorrow on holiday so before I go I'm going to have another go against the Tau Cet aliens.
The fleet is as follows:
Two Sunstrike MK 4 Sensor Ships
Two Broadsword ASM MK 3 Ships
Three Fly Swatter AMM MK 2 Ships
This is a small fleet but I want to see how things go.
19th January 2057
The Tau Ceti battle group refuel arm and move to the Tau Ceti gate.
28th January 2057
The battle group enters the Tau Ceti system and all weapons are readied. The fleet heads towards the wreck of the Sunstrike from the previous attempt.
29th January 2057
The first enemy contact is picked up a Spider class tonnage 8,000 range 207.4m kms the fleet heads towards the contact. At 20:57 both Broadsword class craft launch a salvo of four missiles. The Spider has an ECM which reduces the attack range to 99m km so we need to close. At 23:47 we are within range and open fire again twenty missiles are launched. Damn launced beyond the range of my missiles. Another mistake will try again. At 20:57 the Spider turns to try to escape.
Saturday 1 May 2010
Twenty Five Years
It's been 25 years since the Terran Federation first took a step to the stars and lot's has happened. The big issue at the moment is the gradual depletion of minerals on Earth although I have found numerous bodies in the surrounding systems with good amounts of minerals. To help with the shortages the mineral output on the civilian mining colonies on Pluto and Iapetus is purchased for our use at a cost of 750 wealth a year.
8th June 2050
A survey of the EG 168 system is started by survey group 1. The system contains no bodies and has just one star.
17th June 2050
Due to no bodies present the three Goldrush geo survey ships are despatched to Giclas 221-5 another unexplored system from NN 3106.
22nd June 2050
The jump gate on the Sol side of the Tau Ceti system is now complete so when we are ready transit to the system will not be a problem the only thing is it will be a one way trip until the Tau Ceti system is taken control of.
20th June 2050
Research completes on EM sensitvity 8 which will allow fire controls and active sensors to be smaller and more powerful.
24th September 2050
Gormus 001 whilst waiting at the Gliese 2 jump point in the NN 3106 system picks up an unknown alien craft on thermal sensors the intelligence service designate it as Ogdoad class. The thermal strenght is 180 which I'm sure means something to do with the size. Gormus 001 ctivate it's transponder and my best diplomatic team is assigned.
21st October 2050
A new jump point is discovered in the EG 168 system.
30th October 2050
The gravsurvey of the EG 168 system completes and only one unexplored jump point is found.
Just had a look at re-designing the military craft and I've realised that renaming tech is very important. Looking at the list I can't remember which sensor and fire control goes with which weapoon system and on which ship. In future I will give some kind of comparitive name for now I'll have a go at renaming and obsoleting and hope I can work it out. This is another good tip for any new players out there.
20th April 2051
The alien race encountered in NN 3106 indentify themselves as the Bujumbura Empire and we are currently neutral. Since the encounter no sign of them has been picked up.
20th July 2051
A new jump point is found in the EZ Aquarii system this survey has taken along time due to an error on my part something else that I messed up.
7th August 2051
Gravsurvey of EZ Aquarii finally completes and no unexplored jump points are found.
Well that's all for tonight still trying to get my head around the military designs should have something sorted by tomorrow then construction can start.
8th June 2050
A survey of the EG 168 system is started by survey group 1. The system contains no bodies and has just one star.
17th June 2050
Due to no bodies present the three Goldrush geo survey ships are despatched to Giclas 221-5 another unexplored system from NN 3106.
22nd June 2050
The jump gate on the Sol side of the Tau Ceti system is now complete so when we are ready transit to the system will not be a problem the only thing is it will be a one way trip until the Tau Ceti system is taken control of.
20th June 2050
Research completes on EM sensitvity 8 which will allow fire controls and active sensors to be smaller and more powerful.
24th September 2050
Gormus 001 whilst waiting at the Gliese 2 jump point in the NN 3106 system picks up an unknown alien craft on thermal sensors the intelligence service designate it as Ogdoad class. The thermal strenght is 180 which I'm sure means something to do with the size. Gormus 001 ctivate it's transponder and my best diplomatic team is assigned.
21st October 2050
A new jump point is discovered in the EG 168 system.
30th October 2050
The gravsurvey of the EG 168 system completes and only one unexplored jump point is found.
Just had a look at re-designing the military craft and I've realised that renaming tech is very important. Looking at the list I can't remember which sensor and fire control goes with which weapoon system and on which ship. In future I will give some kind of comparitive name for now I'll have a go at renaming and obsoleting and hope I can work it out. This is another good tip for any new players out there.
20th April 2051
The alien race encountered in NN 3106 indentify themselves as the Bujumbura Empire and we are currently neutral. Since the encounter no sign of them has been picked up.
20th July 2051
A new jump point is found in the EZ Aquarii system this survey has taken along time due to an error on my part something else that I messed up.
7th August 2051
Gravsurvey of EZ Aquarii finally completes and no unexplored jump points are found.
Well that's all for tonight still trying to get my head around the military designs should have something sorted by tomorrow then construction can start.
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